User blog comment:CrazyCombo/Why in the name of hell../@comment-976055-20120704155848

When you get right down to it, the only thing that can truly be considered "canon" or "true" is what the games provide us, because they are the original source material. Neither a book nor an anime count because in all honesty they are not created by the same teams behind the games. The only way something other than the game is admitted is when you have something like Final Fantasy's Ultimanias, which are essentially encyclopedias/developer diaries of a specific game put together by the team that actually developed that game.

A few employees at Capcom aren't good sources when, as Flia said, it can end up as they're interpretation. Hell, they might not even know what the hell they're really talking about.

As for DMC4 giving us plenty of hints - uh...where? We have an orphaned kid with white hair who was infected by a demon, and he wields the Yamato, which manifests Vergil's Devil Trigger form.

All we really know about Nero's lineage is that, somehow, he is a descendant of Sparda, nothing more.